Reagle was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium from 1996 to 2003.[5] There he worked on issues such as intellectual property and privacy.[5][10]
In 2002, he was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's TR35, a list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35.[2]
In 2010, he reconstructed the first ten thousand contributions to Wikipedia from a previously lost data dump as a simple website.[11][12] According to Reagle, the early years of Wikipedia involved instances of antisemitic misconduct by Wikipedia contributors. Reagle highlights a broader 2005 episode when neo-Nazis apparently mobilized to preserve an article on "Jewish ethnocentrism," based on the writings of antisemitic professor Kevin MacDonald.[13]
In 2011, Reagle published a journal article with Lauren Rhue that examined gender bias in Wikipedia, using gendered pronouns to detect articles about women and comparing and contrasting their findings against female coverage in other encyclopedias.[14][15] The article concluded "that Wikipedia provides better coverage and longer articles, that Wikipedia typically has more articles on women than Britannica in absolute terms, but Wikipedia articles on women are more likely to be missing than articles on men relative to Britannica".[15]
Reagle is a supporter of open access[16] and all of his books are available online.[17]
Reagle, Joseph M.; Weitzner, Daniel J.; Rein, Barry D.; Stephens, Garland T.; Lebowitz, Henry C. (October 1999). Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325 (Note). W3C.
^Reagle, Joseph (1996). Trust in a cryptographic economy and digital security deposits: Protocols and policies (MS thesis). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. hdl:1721.1/11016.
^"Faculty Update for 2008–2009"(PDF). Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. 2008. Archived from the original(PDF) on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^Reagle, Joseph (16 December 2010). "Wikipedia 10K redux". reagle.org. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^Reagle, Joseph M. (2012). Good faith collaboration: the culture of Wikipedia. History and Foundations of Information Science. Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT Press. ISBN978-0-262-01447-2.